The Bible Wasn't Written To You

Short Review: Last year I undertook a project of reading about how to understand, interpret and think about scripture. I read a number of books. (Here is a summary post.) However, this little book, just under 70 pages, suggests many of the same ideas that the hundreds of pages that I read last year did.

If you want to think about how to understand scripture, how to read it on your own and how think about translation and culture issues, this is a good introduction. It is not perfect, I don't agree with every word, but it has a lot of good advice and clearly presents many of the issues.

David Ker is a bible teacher in a seminary in Mozambique and a bible translator with Wycliffe Bible Translators. He has the background. This book is an edited form of a group of blog posts. So there is a number of topics, but they are dealt with in relatively short sections. This is a book you can easily read in 60 to 90 minutes.


A longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/bible-written-david-ker/